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81 relations: Age of Sail, Airborne lifeboat, Aircraft carrier, Angle of list, Apollo Lunar Module, Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Battle of the Atlantic, Berthon Boat, Board of Trade, Boat, BoPET, Boston, Bulk carrier, Captain's gig, Carbon dioxide, Carley float, Compressed air, Cork (city), Corner reflector, Cruise ship, Cruiser, Davit, Delanco Township, New Jersey, Desalination, Dinghy, Diving chamber, Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station, Emergency rations, Fail-safe, Fiberglass, First aid kit, Fishing tackle, Flare, Flashlight, Gas cylinder, George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley, Gross register tonnage, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Hypothermia, Lifeboat, Lifeboat (rescue), Lifeboat ethics, Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic, List of equipment of the United States Coast Guard, Lithium battery, Maria Beasley, Marine evacuation system, Muster drill, Neoprene, ..., New Jersey, Nitrogen, Oar, Ochroma, Oil platform, Petrol engine, Polyurethane, Poon Lim, Raft, Relief valve, Reverse osmosis, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Saturation diving, Sea anchor, Search and rescue, Search and rescue transponder, Ship's boat, Ship's tender, SOLAS Convention, Soviet Union, Space blanket, Stern, Steven Callahan, Submarine, Tanker (ship), United Kingdom, United States Coast Guard, United States Navy, Water landing, Whaleboat, World War II. Expand index (31 more) »
Age of Sail
The Age of Sail (usually dated as 1571–1862) was a period roughly corresponding to the early modern period in which international trade and naval warfare were dominated by sailing ships, lasting from the 16th to the mid-19th century.
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Airborne lifeboat
Airborne lifeboats were powered lifeboats that were made to be dropped by fixed-wing aircraft into water to aid in air-sea rescue operations.
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Aircraft carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.
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Angle of list
The angle of list is the degree to which a vessel heels (leans or tilts) to either port or starboard.
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Apollo Lunar Module
The Lunar Module (LM, pronounced "Lem"), originally designated the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), was the lander portion of the Apollo spacecraft built for the US Apollo program by Grumman Aircraft to carry a crew of two from lunar orbit to the surface and back.
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Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Battle of the Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945.
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Berthon Boat
Berthon Boats are collapsible lifeboats used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Board of Trade
The Board of Trade is a British government department concerned with commerce and industry, currently within the Department for International Trade.
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Boat
A boat is a watercraft of a large range of type and size.
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BoPET
BoPET (biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate) is a polyester film made from stretched polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and is used for its high tensile strength, chemical and dimensional stability, transparency, reflectivity, gas and aroma barrier properties, and electrical insulation.
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Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Bulk carrier
A bulk carrier, bulk freighter, or colloquially, bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo, such as grains, coal, ore, and cement in its cargo holds.
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Captain's gig
The captain's gig is a boat used on naval ships as the captain's taxi.
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Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide (chemical formula) is a colorless gas with a density about 60% higher than that of dry air.
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Carley float
The Carley float (sometimes Carley raft) was a form of invertible liferaft designed by American inventor Horace Carley (1838–1918).
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Compressed air
Compressed air is air kept under a pressure that is greater than atmospheric pressure.
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Cork (city)
Cork (from corcach, meaning "marsh") is a city in south-west Ireland, in the province of Munster, which had a population of 125,622 in 2016.
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Corner reflector
A corner reflector is a retroreflector consisting of three mutually perpendicular, intersecting flat surfaces, which reflects waves back directly towards the source, but translated.
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Cruise ship
A cruise ship or cruise liner is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, when the voyage itself, the ship's amenities, and sometimes the different destinations along the way (i.e., ports of call), are part of the experience.
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Cruiser
A cruiser is a type of warship.
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Davit
A davit is any of various crane-like devices used on a ship for supporting, raising, and lowering equipment such as boats and anchors.
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Delanco Township, New Jersey
Delanco Township is a township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.
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Desalination
Desalination is a process that extracts mineral components from saline water.
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Dinghy
A dinghy (or dingey) is a type of small boat, often carried or towed for use as a lifeboat by a larger vessel.
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Diving chamber
A diving chamber is a vessel for human occupation, which may have an entrance that can be sealed to hold an internal pressure significantly higher than ambient pressure, a pressurised gas system to control the internal pressure, and a supply of breathing gas for the occupants.
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Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station
An emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station is a distress radiobeacon, a tracking transmitter that is triggered during an accident.
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Emergency rations
Emergency rations are items of food and drink that a person stores and relies on in case of an emergency.
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Fail-safe
A fail-safe in engineering is a design feature or practice that in the event of a specific type of failure, inherently responds in a way that will cause no or minimal harm to other equipment, the environment or to people.
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Fiberglass
Fiberglass (US) or fibreglass (UK) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber.
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First aid kit
A first aid kit is a collection of supplies and equipment that is used to give medical treatment.
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Fishing tackle
Fishing tackle is the equipment used by anglers when fishing.
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Flare
A flare, also sometimes called a fusee, is a type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light or intense heat without an explosion.
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Flashlight
A flashlight (more often called a torch outside North America) is a portable hand-held electric light.
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Gas cylinder
A gas cylinder or tank is a pressure vessel used to store gases at above atmospheric pressure.
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George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley
George John Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley PC, DL (12 June 1831 – 19 April 1928) was a British Liberal Party politician.
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Gross register tonnage
Gross register tonnage (GRT, grt, g.r.t., gt) or gross registered tonnage, is a ship's total internal volume expressed in "register tons", each of which is equal to.
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House of Commons of the United Kingdom
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Hypothermia
Hypothermia is reduced body temperature that happens when a body dissipates more heat than it absorbs.
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Lifeboat
Lifeboat may refer to.
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Lifeboat (rescue)
A rescue lifeboat is a boat rescue craft which is used to attend a vessel in distress, or its survivors, to rescue crew and passengers.
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Lifeboat ethics
Lifeboat ethics is a metaphor for resource distribution proposed by the ecologist Garrett Hardin in 1974.
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Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic
The lifeboats of the RMS Titanic played a crucial role in the disaster of 14–15 April 1912.
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List of equipment of the United States Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard uses cutters and small boats on the water, and fixed- and rotary wing (helicopters) aircraft in the air.
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Lithium battery
Lithium batteries are primary batteries that have lithium as an anode.
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Maria Beasley
Maria E. Beasley (neé Kenny) was born in Philadelphia.
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Marine evacuation system
A marine evacuation system (MES) is a lifesaving device found on many modern passenger ships consisting of an inflatable slide or escape chute where passenger can evacuate straight into waiting life rafts.
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Muster drill
A muster drill, sometimes referred to as a lifeboat drill or a boat drill, is an exercise that is conducted by the crew of a ship prior to embarking on a voyage.
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Neoprene
Neoprene (also polychloroprene or pc-rubber) is a family of synthetic rubbers that are produced by polymerization of chloroprene.
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.
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Nitrogen
Nitrogen is a chemical element with symbol N and atomic number 7.
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Oar
An oar is an implement used for water-borne propulsion.
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Ochroma
Ochroma is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae, containing the sole species Ochroma pyramidale, commonly known as the balsa tree.
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Oil platform
An oil platform, offshore platform, or offshore drilling rig is a large structure with facilities for well drilling to explore, extract, store, process petroleum and natural gas which lies in rock formations beneath the seabed.
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Petrol engine
A petrol engine (known as a gasoline engine in American English) is an internal combustion engine with spark-ignition, designed to run on petrol (gasoline) and similar volatile fuels.
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Polyurethane
Polyurethane (PUR and PU) is a polymer composed of organic units joined by carbamate (urethane) links.
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Poon Lim
Poon Lim or Lim Poon BEM (March 8, 1918 – January 4, 1991) was a Chinese sailor who survived 133 days alone in the South Atlantic.
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Raft
A raft is any flat structure for support or transportation over water.
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Relief valve
A relief valve or pressure relief valve (PRV) is a type of safety valve used to control or limit the pressure in a system; pressure might otherwise build up and create a process upset, instrument or equipment failure, or fire.
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Reverse osmosis
Reverse osmosis (RO) is a water purification technology that uses a semipermeable membrane to remove ions, molecules and larger particles from drinking water.
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Royal National Lifeboat Institution
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the UK, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man as well as on some inland waterways.
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Saturation diving
Saturation diving is a diving technique that allows divers to reduce the risk of decompression sickness ("the bends") when they work at great depths for long periods of time.
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Sea anchor
A sea anchor (also known as a drift anchor, drift sock, para-anchor or boat brake) is a device used to stabilize a boat in heavy weather.
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Search and rescue
Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger.
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Search and rescue transponder
A search and rescue transponder (SART) is a self-contained, waterproof transponder intended for emergency use at sea.
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Ship's boat
Ship's boats are utility boats carried by larger vessels to act as tenders amongst other roles.
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Ship's tender
A ship's tender, usually referred to as a tender, is a boat, or a larger ship used to service or support other boats or ships, generally by transporting people and/or supplies to and from shore or another ship.
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SOLAS Convention
The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) is an international maritime treaty which sets minimum safety standards in the construction, equipment and operation of merchant ships.
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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Space blanket
A space blanket (depending on the function, also known as a Mylar blanket, emergency blanket, first aid blanket, safety blanket, thermal blanket, weather blanket, heat sheet, or commonly referred to as shock blankets) is an especially low-weight, low-bulk blanket made of heat-reflective thin plastic sheeting.
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Stern
The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail.
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Steven Callahan
Steven Callahan (born 1952) is an American author, naval architect, inventor, and sailor noted for having survived for 76 days adrift on the Atlantic Ocean in a liferaft.
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Submarine
A submarine (or simply sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.
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Tanker (ship)
A tanker (or tank ship or tankship) is a ship designed to transport or store liquids or gases in bulk.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's seven uniformed services.
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United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.
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Water landing
A water landing is, in the broadest sense, a landing on a body of water.
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Whaleboat
A whaleboat or whaler is a type of open boat that is relatively narrow and pointed at both ends, enabling it to move either forwards or backwards equally well.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeboat_(shipboard)
